I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.

It's easy to get wrapped up in the season-to-season business, but to have real longevity in this field, you've got to always maintain your point of view and what makes your brand unique. Your business is always going to have ups and downs, but there needs to be a certain consistency.

I kind of have a uniform for office parties and Christmas parties. What I do is put on a basic tuxedo shirt with a solid navy or black tie, a tweed jacket, a red pocket square, and some sort of fancy shoe or velvet slipper.

A shirt's not just a shirt. It's the experience of what goes into that shirt.

I stay in a lot of hotels, and the best part of travel is getting back to my own bed.

I'd like to think my brand shares some of those characteristics we like to think of as classically American - a certain straightforwardness, honesty, a sense of humor, inclusiveness, practicality - all those great Yankee traits. And I don't mean the baseball team.

I feel like design school might ruin people, particularly if you're a menswear designer, as there's not much focus on business.

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

Before I was State Treasurer, my Rhode Island business helped create over 1,000 jobs, including here at Nabsys, a biomedical company. As governor, I'll use this as a model for how we create manufacturing jobs.

I respect public employees and school teachers. They deserve a secure retirement.

I want to be able to look my daughter's teacher in the eye and say, 'Your pension will be there.' I need to know that her pension will match up with a promise we can keep.

I'll bring colleges and industry together to develop new products in marine science, green technology, and medical devices, and to train our workers to fill those jobs... We need to get Rhode Islanders back to work.

Programs like ACE's Bootstrap Summer Camp teach our kids important computer coding skills that will allow them to design their own futures.

One of the most important tasks as a leader in a startup is to pick the right metric to track. This is often referred to as the 'compass metric' because it will be your compass for growth. It's important to note that 'compass metrics' will likely change over the lifetime of a business.

Different people need different kinds of communication for it to have the same effect. That was something I had to learn.

I got my first computer when I was 6, and I was part of that early generation of children who grew up with computers always being around. I fell in love with them early on.

Growing up, I spent my time doing useless stuff looking at computers.

We need a lot more technically literate people. The computers are the tools that are going to solve essentially all problems, and the people who can use them better will be more effective.

I got my first computer at the age of 6. To me, it was magic. By the time I was 12, I wanted to know the secrets behind the wizardry, and that started my journey toward computer programming. This was the early 1990s, when computers weren't built for the mass market.

Computers are the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created. Yet, we treat them largely as a black box; as if it were an alien artifact that magically appeared on desks, in homes, and in our pockets.

Computers add convenience to our everyday lives, but we are limited in what we can do with technology others have imagined. The ability for humans to teach machines entirely new things - coding - is nothing short of a superpower.

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.

The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.

People are quick to say with their mouth full, 'Well, the American farmer is on the dole.' But a loaf of bread is two bucks when it could be 10 bucks. I know what it is with the government in my business. We would be all for not having government in our business, but we need a fair system.

You name it - it is something every day from the Environmental Protection Agency, and every group I talk to is the same message: 'Please stop them. Please stop.'

Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.

Seeing young people caring about sound again and realizing that it's not cool to not have good sound, that means a lot.

That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.

I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool.

I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

I follow cool. When I went up to see Steve Jobs, I said, 'The party's at this guy's house.'

The sound of my voice is more famous than me.